Today is another conversation that fits into our recurring series titled “A User’s Guide to Higher Education.” It’s true that this has nothing to do with history, or higher education. But it’s a topic in which we’re more than a little (self) interested, and in which myth always seems to outnumber fact. So, until another podcast comes along and tells you how US News and World Report’s polls tell you nothing of use, we’ll keep on having these conversations on higher ed.

This time we’re joined by our friend and Augustana colleague Mike Edmondson, Vice-President and Director of Careers–Opportunities–Research–Exploration…CORE, as we call it here. It’s what other less advanced institutions of higher learning call a Career Office, which at this college is like saying in the 1970’s that Arnold Schwarzenegger is a guy who lifts weights. (It’s true, see, but is a very limited truth.)